Abstract
A task in the philosophy of discovery is to find reasoning strategies for discovery, which fall into three categories: strategies for generation, evaluation and revision. Because mechanisms are often what is discovered in biology, a new characterization of mechanism aids in their discovery. A computational system for discovering mechanisms is sketched, consisting of a simulator, a library of mechanism schemas and components, and a discoverer for generating, evaluating and revising proposed mechanism schemas. Revisions go through stages from howp ossibly to howplausibly to howactually.
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Darden, L. (2001). Discovering mechanisms: A computational philosophy of science perspective. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2226, pp. 3–15). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45650-3_2
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